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New York lawmaker attends party dressed in blackface and Afro

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) wearing blackface (screenshot via WPIX)

A state assemblyman from Brooklyn is defending himself against charges of racism after a photo appeared on Facebook showing him attending a recent party dressed in blackface. Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) told The New York Observer that he was “trying to emulate, you know, maybe some of these basketball players.”…

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No woman anywhere should ever be good enough

If you read feminist blogs, surely you’ve seen the outrage over this article in the New York Observer. It’s a kinda-sorta joking article to invent the term “cheetah”—women who are younger than so-called “cougars” and “pumas”, but are still over 25 and unaware that they are therefore too nasty to…

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